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Article: Pagnotti: Mental trouble cause of taking van with kids inside: Louis J. Pagnotti III, a coal company heir, is trying to get a perjury charge dismissed.
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- The Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA)
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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Byline: Edward Lewis
Sep. 22--Local coal company heir Louis J. Pagnotti III is attempting to dismiss a perjury charge that he lied to a federal grand jury by contending he was granted immunity for his testimony.
As part of that case, a document has emerged that for the first time gives Pagnotti's explanation for his much-publicized, 2002 carjacking of a minivan containing two children. In part, he says in the document that he didn't know the children were inside and that a mental problem caused him to believe, wrongly, he had to rush to the airport in the minivan.
Pagnotti, 52, an engineer with his family's coal mining and real estate company, ...